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Vol. X.

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“This is trae Liberty, when E'reeborn Men, having to adyise the Pr

Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Tuesday,

iblic, may speak free.”’---Euripides.

J uly Ig, 1860.

_ New Series.---No. 27

BY WILLIAM ALLINGHAM. '

© Spirit of the summer time : Bring back the roses to the dells ; The swallow {rom her distant clime, The honey- bee frora drowsy cells.

Bring back the friendship of the sun ; The gilded evenings, calm and late,

When merry children homeward run, And peeping stars bid lovers wait.

Bring back the singing, and the scent Of meadow lands at dewy prime ;—

© bring again my heart's content, Thou spirit of the summer time!

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of Henry Ward Beecber’s sermons:

The cross has twined around it every association of dignity and beauty in the world. Not one other thing bus received from the from the fertile minds and the all-fashioning hands of mea of genius so taany iatrinsic beauties as the cross of Christ. Millions never hear of it without a throb, nor see it without a genuflection. It dawns upou the child ia the crad‘e next to its own mother’s face, aud it is the last thing from which the light disappears when tie child, in old age, is dying. The cross is now as universal and as beautiful to the association and the memories of men, as then it was rare, peculiar and odious; it is that which now to us is not only suggestive of a fact in Christ’s history, but it is also a me- woriw! of two thousand years of hstory. Around that simple crosswood the heart of the world has gathered for twenty ceaturies its stores of admpration, of love and of de- Votlua

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In 1682. Galileo, then a youth of eighteen, was seated in the Cathedral of Piss, when the lamps suspended from the roof were repleni<hel by the sucristan, who, in doing so, caused them to oscililate from side to side, as they had done hundreds of times before when similarly disturbed. LHe watched the lamps and thought he perceived that while the oscillations were dim nishing, they sill occupied the same time. The idea thus suggested never departed from his

pendaium, and thus gave to the world one of the most im- portant instruments for the measurement of bine. wards, when living st Venice, it was reported to hin one

day that the children of a poor spectaclewaker, while playing

with two glasses, ha observed, »s they expressed it, that

things were brought nearer by looking tu a certain position. | Everybody said how curious, but Galileo seized the idea and

invented the first telescope. | ———— * You look like death on a pale horse,’ said Jim to a toper

who was growing pale and emaciated.

+ Don't know anything about that,’ replied the toper ; ‘ but

I'm death on pale brandy.’ th > <2

Economistxa.—A fair denizen of fashionab’e Paris, whose extravagance bore rather hard oa her husband's purse, Was taken to tesk by him for want of economy. “1 kuow what | you say is true.” replied the repentant belle, “ but what shall | do to redace our expenses?” ‘“ Why, ma cuere, replied the husband, delighted with her submission, “ you ride a great deal; why not take an omnitus oceasionally instead of acarriage? ‘That will save somethiug, sure.” The wife agreed, and as soon as her busbaad was goue, sic rang for ber maid. “ Marietta, call me a eoach that [ may | get to the omnibus to go to the Madelaiae. 1 must econo- | wise.” “I say, landlord, that's a dirty towel fur a man to wipe on.” Laadlord, with a look of amazement, replied, * Well, you're mighty particular. Sixty or seventy of my boarders | bave wiped on that towel this woraing, and you are the Orst | one to find fault.”"— American Paper.

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A benevolent old gentleman used to give away wood by the cord, ia order, as be said, to have it recorded above.

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The statute legslizing matrimony, at a certain age, is, | properly speaking, a maritime law. —_—- —» +e The most amusing man in the world is a Frenchman in a | passion :—* By gar you call my vife a womon two three eeveral times once more, an’ [ vill call you the vatch house, | aud blow out your brains like a candle.” —— -++e ——- } An admirer of dogs, having had a new litter of a fine breed, a friend wished him to put him down for a puppy! I set you down for one a great while ago,” was the auswer.

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A man was charged with stealing a piece of cloth, when the lawyer put in vs a plea that the individual charged with stealing could not see it, fur it wasan invisible green.

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Durieg an exam nation, a medical student, being asked the question, * When does mortification ensue?” replied, « When you pop the question and are answered No.”

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A young lady has discovered the reason why some married men from the age of thirty years and upwards, are more or less build; they seratel the bair off iu dismay at their wives’ loug milliners’ bills! Sezndalous.

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“ Husband, [ hope you have no objection to my being | weighed ?"—* Certainly not, my dear ; but why do you ask | the question ?”"—* Quly to ascertuiu if you will let me have | my weigh ouce.”

Shee die oat euememcmmemaal

} Tur Cross. —The following striking passage is from one

| while cold contracts them.”

| Very good, Solon. Can you give an example ?”

| “Yes, sir. In summer, when it is hot, the days are long, ‘in winter, when it is cold, it gets to be short!” | “Goto the head. Solon; boys, take your seats”—and | |the learned pedagogue was lost in wonder that so familiar | jan instance of jjlustration should have escaped his philo- | sophie mind,

the best and most scrupulous of faad-overseers generally did, was to make such portions of the reads as were under their superintendence look as well as le; but real and lasting improvement they never acco . However, if the repairs of the road were let by cQnt¥att. for a term of years, the real cbject—permancnt improvement of the roads—

case, be for the interest of contragtors. to have their work a ; well done upon them the first and seeond year, so that much | The darkey who greased his feet so that he could not | less outlay of money and labor might be required to keep make a noise when he weut to steal chickens, slipped from | chées in good repair the third and fourth year. I hope your tae henroost into the custody of the owner. He gave as a| Honors will agree to the Lill wipif@ptypne disgentinent voice ; ‘Treason for his being there :—** Dat he cum dar to see ef de | and, in time, if it be found to work beneficially, as I doubt chickens sleeped with dar eyes open.” He was cooped. ‘not it will, not only will the proposition of my honorable 2. friend. Mr. Dingweil, for its application to the whole of the Novet Presoriprion.—Old Sqnire Greed was notoriously | po-t-roads be adopted, bat it will finally be made to apply to parsimonious; but being ill, was obliged to consult Dr. | all our by-roads as well, Syntax. “ What shail L do for my head? It is so dizzy 1| Hon. Mr, BacnaLt—The present system of Statute Labor seem to see double.” The doctor wrote a prescription, and | is certainly a most miserable and, inefficient one. From the retired: * When you see double, you will fiud relief by | time the suvow disappears until te performance of the Statute counting your mouey.” . “ | Labor the roads are in a wretelf#d condition ; and the same

| way be said of them from the i the Statute Labor is per- Dnawtme?: Provincial

formed until the snow comes agsm. The time at which the

a ‘ es f D a vl LAME t ‘ | Stature Labor is performed is umfeasotable for the purpose.

would, as far as possible, be ai inined ; for it would in sueh |

upon them, that the hardship which, in that respect, they were made to endure might aptly be compared to that im- pcesed by the Egyptians upon the Israelites, when they were required to deliver their appointed tale of bricks, although the straw necessary for their manufacture was denied thew. fie knew from his own official experience in Charlottetown, that much more work — indeed double — could be procured upon the roals from poor men when they were paid for it than when they performed it merely as their ordinary legal Statute Labor ; and then having the labor required upon cur rcads paid for in cash would, be was convinced, produce very beneficial results,

His Honor the Presinent—I think His Honor argues against himself. He says that poor men would generally prefer giving double the amount of work required of them | by law—that is of labor actually performed by themselves— than commute for their legal portion. I do not exactly jeempreheud him, As for the performance of Statute Labor, [can truly say, from my own observation of it throughout | the Island, that in general it is not labor, but an idle frolic. The whole system of Statute Labor is, in fact, nothing bur a complete humbug. If they who have hitherto escaped with pomina) or useless labor, should henceforth, be made to | Work in earnest, and to some good purpose, they will have

, ; } “ Stop!—Next. What are the properties of heat ?” ‘rom the present system, which ameunted to little more than bisipahihs chenllka shmaak As ‘elles ana dinate ae ae ae et ee ee eee ee “ : ; : 7. ; , , p al} servation of morality should, y eces

dtiscellancons, The properties of heat is to warm your toes, when they | ploughing up the sides of the rdeds, and throwing the sods | our public roads in dime As to many, very many of the| dence of coat ean of i aeearaaranieaiey oF the eee perenne | £et om by — — the fire, and so hesh,* into the centre of them, so «8 rather, from the thickMess of | lutter, so hardly were the dealt with, and so heavily did the| state ought to yield to the obligations of morality ; and yet * Next. at are the orties of heat, Solon ‘” s sods, gres ond i i abet . , : . : ® .

SONG : ae be a - aie ~ heat, Soles | - he sods, greatly to endanger the springs of light carriages, | performance of Statute Labor or the commuting for it, bear | unfortunately, as sagiety was at present constituted, the in-

NG. properties of heat is that it expands bodies, | than to improve the roads for tmivelling thereon. All that terest Of the latter Were made to give to the exigencies

of the former. His Honor’s proposition appeared to be the Maine Liquor Law in disguise. When that law was first enacted, it struck at the evil in an open and manly manner; but in a few months it became a dead ‘etter, He did nos by any means intend to question the motives of bis Honor, Mr. Johnson, for he believed them to be pure and honest ; but he did not thipk that his proposition, even were it to become law, would answer the intention. On the contrary, it would, he thought, like its prototype the Maine Liquer Law, prove nugatory from the first, and soon become # dead letter on our Statute Book. If we should do away with the licensing system, we should lose al! control over such houses as those in which it is now retailed ; and they would, conse- quently, become greater nuisances and abominstions than they are at present; for their Honors might rest assured that, so long as ap appetite for liquor generally existed iu the community, and so long as liquor could so casily be p:o- cured, by means of a contraband trade therein, og, in any part of Prince Edward Istand it could be, so long would there be found hundreds of individuals, tempted by the prose pect and hopes of gain, ready to retail it at all hazards. Entertaining such vows, said the Hon. Colonel, 1 eannot second the motion of Lis Honor Mr. Johnson, which, if suse

/no just grounds to comp'ain ; for their work will be for their |

tained by the Vou atare, would be a virtual, if not a direct

is | Were it duly performed as earl as possible in the spring, ‘own benefit, as well as that of the public at large. avoivon of the jivensing system; yet perhaps, on further jinstead of being deierred unt! Puly and Augast, one shil-| Hou. Mr. Dixawett—ILf His Honor were io the place of consideration of the question, he may consent to second the

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. | Tuorpsay, April 12, 1360, i Sehe. when the labor performed upon them effected nothiug

LICENCE LAW, | but the spoiling of them forthe Season. e Hon, Mr, Simpson in other Wore expressed the same Petition of divers inhabitants of Georgetown and Royalty | opi ion. jand others, setting forth «that they are of opivion that the} ‘law which empowers the gran ing of Certificates to obtain | to be applicable to the main roads ? | Licence for the retail of spirituous liquors is defective, in as} Hoo, Mr. Patuern—The $i)! leaves the same amount of far as it Vests power in six persons tosiga Certificates to that | S:a:ute Labor to be performed wpon the main yoads as can eff ct, whilst those six persons are often chosea by the ap-/be commanded thereon by the present sys'em; only by the plicant for such Licence: and that they are of opinion that | Bill itis to be the evil might be obviated by repealing that clause of the | please to have it applied, so long ds-the parties having to

Hon, Mr. Jounson, by leave, presented to the House a

Act which plates the authority in ‘six men,’ and substituting | perform it are not required to go beyond the boundaries of |

in its place *a majority of the inhabitants and b>u-eholder- | the road precincts in which they reside.

performed wherever the Contractor may |

as to paying the commutation money, to their Honors, in- | fuenced solely by a consideration of their own abundance, it was a very trifling consideration. It was quite otherwise, | however, to a poor man who, as he knew it to have been the

to enable him to pay his land-tax.

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L hope louors wil not agree to it, ‘the Committee divided : Conrexsts—Hon. Mr. | Hon. Mr. Hutchinson—3.

ling properly expended upon t¥e roads in April would ef- (one of those poor men, compelled to work under a strict) Resolution which | am about to sulmit. The system which fect more beneficial results than Bve shillings so expended in | overseer, he would find that the labor was no humbug. And,|[ would recommend would empower the Judges to appoint

Benches of Licensing Magistrates. There are now abundances of magistrates in the eouniry ; and it would surely be no dif- ficult matter for the judges to select, from among them, a sufficient vumber of inteiligent men, worthy of having so im-

Hon. Mr. Craswett—What part of the Statute’ Labor is! case not long ago, bad to travel eight miles before he could portant a trust reposed in them, A right of appeal on the sell a cou; le of bushels ef grain for cash, which he wauted | part of those who might feel

aggrieved by the granting of

8 a licenses, in particular instances, might be resolved, by the {iis Honor the Prestprnt—The mot'on is a bad one ; and | exercise of which, licenses, if improperly granted, through io _ |isadvertance oa the part of licensing ns. mighs Poe Chairman having put the question on the said motion, either be withheld or cancelled, or the right of resewiag thom

| withheld, : Dingwell, Hoo. Mr. McIntyre, |

The Hon. Colonel then read bis Resolution, with a preamble, which preamble is a slight modification of paria

mind, and fifty years a!terwards he constructed the first |

A ft ere |

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jon and the improvement of the Highways”—

be gone into, briefly explained the object of the Bill.

ata public meeting couvened for that purpose, in Town, Royalty, or School District.’ ”

lion. Mr. Jounson provounced the Petition to be a move- ment in the right direction; and expressed his intention to follow it up either by moving a Resolution in support of it, in accordance with his own previously conceived views of tle question, or as his Resolutiou, if made, would be somthing more than a mere embodiment of the prayer of the petitioners,

licity to his own conscienticus sentimeats concerning the whole matter. With respect to the course which be should

adopt, he wished to be governed by the House.

Their Honors Colone! Swapey, Mr. BaGnaty, and Mr. Hurcntnson, having each made a few observations, touchias |

ithe yeneral que-tion, all admitting the necessity whieh | fexisted for putiing the Liccasing

System ou a better foor- |

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Hoo. Mr. Parmer said that the traffic in #ntoxicatin, | liquors was a great evil, and, could its total prehibition be | accomplished, most gladly would he agree to a m®asure for | that purpose. D scussion of the question would then, how- ever, be a mere waste of time; fer, as had beer intimated to the Legislature, by His Excellency, in bis Speech at the | opening of the Session, a measure for the alieratioa of the | Licensing System, prepared by the Government, would be brought before them betore the close of the Session. When that measure was sent up from the other House, their Honors would have opportunities to give seasonable expression to their sentimenta, individually, concerning tbe whole que-tiou [t wae bad policy to discuss a question prematurely, or

Hon. Mr. Dixawett then moved that the Petition be laid upon the Table ; and that further consideration of it be made an order of the day for to-morrow.

Ordered accordingly.

HIGHWAYS ACT AMENDMENT BILL. The order of the day having been read, for the second

reading of the Bill intituled * Au Act to make certain alter-

ations ia the Laws for the performance of Statute Labour

Hon. Mr. Parmer, in moving that the Order of the day He said that as their Honors had no doubt availed themselve- of the opportunity which, since the Bill had been laid upon the Table, had beeo afforded them to make themselves fully acquainted with its details, it was, he thought, not necessary that he should enter into any particular exposition of them. | It would be sufficient to say that the principal alterations |

| proposed by the Bill were the authoriziug the letting of the

repairs of the main post roads by contract, for a term of years, and, (whilst leaving it optional with parties either to perform their Statute Lubor, or commute it,) the reducing of the rate of comuatation one fourth, with the express ubject

‘of rendering it more advantageous to a party to pay the

mouey tian to perform the labor. It was not proposed that the whole of the post roads should be let in that way, but only certain portions of them, for it would be impossible to find money to pay for the keeping the whole of them in re- | pair under contracts. The Bill had been introduced by th- Government, for the furtherance of the interests o: the, Coiony, as prowised in Ais Exe-llency’s Speech.

Hon. Col. Swabey eecouded the motion.

House in Committee on said Bili: His Honor Colonel Swabey in the Chair,

Their Honors were unanimous in their approbation of this measure, al! agreeing in condemnation of the system of

| Statute Labor, and in the opinion that it ought to be abolish- }

‘ed wherever its abolition was practicable; and more than one |

of them laid claim to the scheme as an original idea of his own. As evidently convinced of the great importance of the measure, and the uecessity for rendering it as cearly perlect aud as comprehensive as possible, the provisions aad details

‘thereof were most scrupulously canvassed in its progress

leountries; bat still if skilfully constructed with such mate- | ‘rials as the Island affords, our wads may, at albetimes, be | by making a few observatious for the purpose of giving pub- |

‘juey mu The repairing or the replacing ef

‘on account of bodily infirmity, family

‘through the Comittee, every member of the Board taking

We must not undervalue physicians. Perhaps the fabric | part in the discussion, and several individually offvring sug- |

of society would fal! without them—they are its pullers.

BS eee | circumstances permit, the Reporter, in the following notice

‘of tue discussion, has faithtully endeavoured to give a brief

gestions for its improvement. As far as previously expl-iued |

Niceza Wir.— Julius, why didn’t you oblong your | stay at de sea ride ?’—* Kase, Mr. B8now, dey charge too | much.”—** How so, Julius ?”’—* Why, de landlord charged dis coloured individual with stealmg de spoons.”

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She that marries a man because he is a “ good match,”

must not be surprised if he turns out a “* Luciter.” i

Aw Howesr Maw wrru 4 Quatrrication.—Judge W——, many years an occupant of the Federal Bench of Michigan, | fell into a couversatiun, in a barber's shop, with a plain sub-— stantial-looking, ao. rather aged stranger, from the neigh- borhood of Tecum-eh. The Judze having been formerly well acquainted with that vicinity, took occasion to ask after | certain of the citizens. “ You know Mr. B , do you ?”) asked the Judge.. ‘* Very well,” was the reply. “ [s he) quite well ?” asked the Judge.

“ He is quite well,” was: the answer. Judge W then remarked, * Mr. B is | a very fine man.”

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« Y-e-s,”” says the old farmer, rather | cautivusly, “a fioe man for a lawyer—you know we don’t | expect # great deal of them !” i —— cc Ai Ie

Scene ix «4 Scnoot Roou.—" First class im philosop)y, come up. Ichabod, what are the properties of heat ?”

* The properties of heat is to bake bread, boil water, cook eggs, and ——-,”

‘ment will be at perfect liberty either to accept or reject any | nen who can’t afford to pay Bs. as commutation money, but)

exposition of any views peculiarly cntertained by any ind’ vidual member of the Council, as respects the measure in_ general or avy of its details. 5S ‘i . } he S Hou. Mr. Disgwett—According to the Bill, the post- roads intended to be kept in repair by contract are thos? leading from Charlottetown to Georgetown, and Sumwmerside | by way of St. Eleaior’s, St. Peter’s, and Heoper’s Corner by way of Tryon and Cape Traverse. Now as the Govern:

tenders which may be sent in to them, I think all the post- roads in the Island ought to be included in the provision ;

‘and theo, if the measure be found to work well it will not.

be necessary, at some future period, to jatroduce another | Bill for its extevsivn. Ln its operation the Government way confine it accordingly to the amount of pecuniary meaus at their disposal for such purpose. They may try the ex-| periment upon such of the post-roads as they may please to select for the experimbnt, and to such an extent as they may find it practicable to carry it.

His Honor the Presipent—I am glad to see such a measure as this before us. Lt is indeed a step in the right

\directioa, and would be creditable to any Government. 1)

have always been of opinion that as respects the letting of the repairs of highways,* the system would not be found to accomplish the desired object ; avd that such letting should | always be for aterm of years, Little beuclit was experienced

tion. Mr. Jonnson—lI heartily approve of the measure; |

,if the contractors secure the work upon the roads to be per- formed in a proper manner, the Operation Or the measure can ne productive of nothing but public benefit. There are not, | t is true, in this Island those” hard materials for the con- | | traction of public roads which ave to be found in many other |

. . ; \ 3 easily kept in good repair, ‘Te that end, there metds little | more than t! at they shoul 1 # properly rouaded, and, by | proner draining, kept free from water.

1 | of the preamble to the Resolution proposed by the Hon. Mr. Non-Conrenrs—His Honor the President, Hon. Mr.' Johnson, the whole is as follows :—

Palmer, Hon. Me. Bagnall, Hon. Mr. Craswell, Hon. Mr. |

Simpson, Hon. Mr. Johnson—6 So it passed in the negative.

Ou wotion, the House was then resumed, progress re-| ported from ihe Committee, and leave granted to sit again

House adjourned until to-morrow at twelve o'clock.

Fripay, April 13. LICENSE LAW.

According to order, the petition of divers inhabitants of

tion. Mr. Dixcwett—I am of opinion that the small | Georgetowa and Royalty and others, presented to the House!

br dges. although aot the large oops, should be included ia the | Ifa bridge, whether gyeat or small, got out | $8. never answer to in- irately in repair, Bridge, acci entally lamaged or carried away. bp af nigh! com from £30 | 10 £10; and it would not suit Bitber them wio let or them who took the keeping of the-réad in repair, to make provi- sion for seleet casaalties In tha-contract.

Hon. Mr. Hurewixson—Preferable as the contract system for a term of years might be tethat of Statute Labor, he! was afraid that the results would be similar to those experi- enced by individuals who let farmgon balves, by agreements, or by leases, for a short term of years. However well for their own beuefit, the contracting or operating perties, in

road contracts. f order, the whoje 1oad was alapst us

[lis Honor the Prestpent—it would clude the bridges.

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‘such cases, cultivated the farms, until within a short period _of the expiration of their terms ; it was almost always found }that the farms reverted to their owners in quite as bad, if

not ia a much worse condition than they were in when they ler them.

Hon. Mr. Dixawrtt—As it was very probéble that con- tractors might trequently be dissatisfied with the manner in which Sratute Labor was performed upon the portions of roads taken by them, he thought a we'l defined line should be drawn between the right of the contractor to such labor | and the power of the overseer. The contractor, if it were

‘altogether !eft to him would generally most rigorously exact

from all parties who performed S:atate Labor upon his con- tract the full amount of what the law allowed him to require. Bat if a discretionary power, in some measure regulating such labor, were vested in the overseer, he would in most instances in which he knew lenity to be justly due to pariics| ickness, or poverty, | make a feeling.and yet just use of such power.

Hon. Mr. Stupson—Disputes on that bead will, no doubt, frequently arise. It is, however, impossible, 1 think, to pre- vent them by legislative enactments; they must be loft to} cure themselves, as they will eventually do.

Hon. Mr. Dixawetn—Although the commutation money is to be lowered one-fourth, still many will not be able to | pay it; and to such individaa's, [ think it wou'ld be nothing | more than justice that a similar reduction suoald be made as respects the namber of hours for whch they are individually | required by the present Law to work upon the roads.

Hon. Mr. Simpzon—So long as the Statute Labor Law exists, I would say let the legal labor,. 32 hours, be fully exacted upon the roads, in every instance iu which it shall not be commuted for, The great object of the Bill is to

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‘raise money to pay for the proper and real improvement of

the highways. All who know angthingat-all respecting the manner in which Statate Labor is~performed upon the roads, are well aware how little improvement is effecied by it; for the study of parties, in general, who nominally perform it, is not to eff-ct a real improvement ef the roads, but how far

‘they can continue to evade the actual performance of their

legal obligation with respect to them. By reduction of the

firs§ rose to speak to the question, which,—both before and | jafter he had read the suljoined Declarative Resolutioa,— | | he did with much earnestness, energy and effect.

| and encouragin, to the habit and practice of drunkenness; and, whereas, |

' intoxicating iqu | tbat it is the opinion of this House that all and every Actor Acts passed

yesterday, was taken up again and read, and taken iuto con-| sideration.

His Honor Mr. Jonxsox, who had presented the petition, | i

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, DECLARATIVE RESOLUTION ON TAVERN LICENSING. , . Wherces the habit and practice of Drunkenness is a mora! evil, highly |

| injurious and obstructive to the happiness and prosperity of the people; |

and, whereas this destructive vice is stated (by the highest judicial | authority in the islind) to be lamentably increasing amongst us; and, | whereas, it is right and expedient to prevent the prevalence and spread | of the evil by all means within the power of discreet legislators; and,

whereas, the appointment, liceasing, ur setting apart of houses, taverns, | ot places, for the express purpose of selling and vending Spirituous and | Intoxicating Liquors (to be drank on such premises) is nighly incentive | Spiritaous and Lutoxicatiag Liquors are not needful to the reireshment | or entertainment of travellers; and, whereas, such houses, taverns, or | places as are licensed to se}l intoxicating liquors (to be drunk on the | premises) are found to be the resort of idle and disorderly persons, who,

from the effect of such liquors, are Jed to commit dangerous breaches of |

| the peace and murderous assaults upon each other and the public; and, |

| whereas. such practices are dangerously corrupting to the morals of the | rising generation; and, whereas, it appears to this House to be totally |

incompatible with seund, just, and paternal legi-lation that the Law |

| should sanction, license, and encourage the sale of Intoxicating Liquors, |

in places and wader circumstances specially favorable and conducive to | drunkenness and its consequent evils, when, by other Acts, it requires | aud provides for the punishment of such crimes, by fiae, iw prisonment, | or even death itself; and, whereas, to avoid such anowalous legislation, | and such criminal complicity and encouragement, it is needful and | proper for the State to withdraw from all participation therein, and to | abolish the system of licensing houses, taverns, or plages for the sale of | to be drunk on the premises: Resolved, therefure, |

by the Legislature of this Island for the purpose or purposes of licensing any house or place to sell Spiritaous and Iatoxicating Liquors (to be | drunk on the premises) ought to be repealed; and, in their stead, that | it shuld be enacted that. from and after,

| it shall be unlawful for any person or persons, in this Island, or its

dependencies, to se!l or vend, for price of money, track or barter, or in

|any collusive manner, any spirituous or iatoxicating liquors to be drank | }on the premises whereon the sale is made, or wherein the party or |

parties selling or veading the same reside, or over which they possess a | directive control. | }

Hon. Mr. Jounsoy, in the course of his observations, said |

lexpressly, more than once, that he wished it to be rene d

understood that, in submitting bis Resolution with the pre- amble to it, all be desired was to prevent the licensing of| houses or places for the sale of intoxivating liquors, to be | drunk upon the premises, for such places were uarseries of | every vice;—that he was not an advocate for the Maine |

| Prohibitory Law, neither did he condemn the temperate use | of spirituous liquors—it was the abuse of them only which

he impugued—and he was very far from desiring to inter-) fere with, or prohibit any man’s business, which in itself and | in the manuer iu which it was conducted, in no way milita-| ted against good order, decency, morality, or re!igion, He | was not, however, ashamed to say that he was oue who, with | the inspired penman, believed that ‘ righteousuess exalteth | a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people; and he was!

bold to assert that any Government or Legislature that | | sanctioned, licensed, and encouraged the sale of intoxicating |

liquors in places and under circumstances specially favorable |

and conducive to drunkenness and its consequent evils, in rate of commutation, it is very reasonably calculated that) doing so sinned against God, and were positively participant |

many who would otherwise prefer eomp!ping with the Statute | in all the crimes which arose from the demoralizing bestial |

by actually workiag upon the roads, will be induced to com- mute for it; and thus more money will be raised to pay the

‘contractors than if the rate of commutation were to be aliowed

to remain as it at present stands, But, to make a simiiar |

or propertionate reduction in the time which mea individa- ally are, by the present law, required to work upon the road, would be to inrease the evil waich the Bill is intended to remedy.

Ion. Mr. Patan briefly spoke to the-same effect ; adding

| that the exacting of Stature Labot, when pot commuted for,

shou!d be kept up as it now stands,with a view to the getting | more cash to be'laid out upon the roads; most of which would, in all probability, pass into the nands of those poor | men who could not afford to pay the commutation money at the present rate.

Hon. Mr. Discwett—We do not want our roads made by |

by such persons as can afford to pay it. The commutation | money is to be reduced from 4s, to 3s.; and TL move that a) proportionate reduction be made as to time—that is, that they wie do not commute shall be required io labor oaly 24 ours iastead of 32 hours upon the roads.

Hon. Mr. Melyryre, in seconding the motion, took the same view of the question as was taken by the Hon. Mr. | « Ingwell,

Hon. Mr. Joanson—The motion appears to me rather absurd. His Honor Mr. Dingwel), who bas made it, admits that under the existing legal provisions with respect to) Statute Labor, that Jabor is very far from being well or fully)

performed ; and, yet, in the very face us it were of such ad- | liquor—is a legitimate source of revenue; and if it be put.a that of that which is so much required | stop to in a legitimate form, we shal! lose a very Jarge and

mission, he proposes the little usually done shall be made less ! Hon. Mr. Hvrcauison—The proprietors,

‘excesses which were practised in those hot-beds of infamy | ‘and of every vice. He sympathized with the druskard, |

Whereas the habit and practice of drankenneas is a moral evil, bighly

| injurious and obstructive to the bappiness and pr eperity of the people; |and, whereas. this destructive vice is stated by the highest judicial

authority in the [sland to be lamentably increasing awong-t us; and, whereas, it is right and expedient to prevent the prevalence and spread of the evil by all means within the power of a discreet legislature; and, whereas, the tacility with which licenses to keep public houses and sell intoxicating liquor are obtained by improper partie, and in situations — they are not required for the accommodation of the travelling public :

Therefore Resolved, That it is the opinion of this House that the whole system of livensing ought to undergo the careful revision of the Legis- lature, with the view of adopting a better system, in order thata remedy may be found for the evila which are acknowledged to exist.

By such a revision, said the Hon, Colonel, the great moral evil arising out of the preseat system may be cheeked. Farther than this I am not prepared to go; for it is in the otier House that all measures affecting the revenue ought to originate, +

(To Le continued.)

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Fripay Arrernoon, April 27. DEBATE ON THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

Concluded.

Mr. HOW AT—The hon. member says that his object is to test the sincerity of the majority on the Elective Coun- ceil Bill. As one of that majority, 1 may say that lust year I supported that measure, and [ have not changed my opiniwn of it. The Council last session was obstructive, and they may be so again. Hitherto since the recent ad- ditions to that body it has worked well in conjunction witly the House. bat it may not continue todo so in future. For «wy own part, I think it would be ag well to abolish it altogether, vut the Imperial Government will not sanetion that course, therefore, | consider that the elective principle. is the next best we could adopt. [f the Council isa mere echo of the House, it is useless; if ubstroctive, worse than useless. The session has been already 60 protracted, that T agree with the statement of the amene ment that it is in- expedient ty introduce the Billnow. The Council has been but lately reconstructed, and no evil can result from defer- ring the matter till next session, when any change which may be found necessary may be adupted.

Mr. SINCLAIR—I agree with the hon. member that it would be better to abolish the Council altogether, if we had the power. As at present constituted it is useless—merely an echo to this House. When the Bill to make it eleative passed the House ast session, the majority stated that the people wished to elect the Councillors, and that it would be a mere farce to send the Li}l to the Couneil for their sanctiun until the Government should have received author- ity sv to reconstruct it as to ensure its passage there, Such authority they bad received, und it was their duty to have introduced the Bill at the beginning of the session, I believe it was brought in and passed, not from any admise ration of the priveiple on which it was based, but that it had its origin in personal feelings towards particular indi- viduals. The Co should be in amore independent position; itse)arccter should not be changed with every change of Government. Election would render them more indepencen', aad perhaps the best mode would be by elect- ing the Counc:ilors from this House. At present icis a merely ascles- echo to the House, for the additional mem- bers recently appointed, were seleeted in order that they should eupport the measures of the Government, and they are aware of the fact.

tion. M. YEO—There was no use in sending the Bill] ta the Council as it was composed last session. It was not constituted in accordance with the royal instractions,which directed that members should be nominated from among the principal proprietors, nut one of whom had a seat at the Board.